The invention discloses a system-level simulation platform for satellite mobile communication and a construction method, the architecture of the simulation platform comprises a storage management layer, a configuration management layer, an intermediate adaptation layer and a statistical analysis layer, and the construction method comprises the following steps: constructing a satellite mobile communication-oriented system-level simulation platform architecture; analyzing a configuration management model of the simulation platform according to the simulation platform architecture; modeling the core communication node to generate a satellite model, a terminal node model and a gateway station model; and designing a work flow of the simulation platform. The method has the advantages that the method is suitable for multi-satellite, multi-station, multi-beam, multi-link and multi-user free networking; a new reference is provided for simulation verification of a satellite mobile communicationsystem protocol system and a key technology, and meanwhile flexible networking, system argumentation, protocol design and key technology verification of multiple satellites, multiple stations, multiple beams, multiple links and multiple users in the satellite mobile communication system are supported.